The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-11-17
THREE WESTERN MEN.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, JULIUS S. GRIN
NELL AND NATHANIEL 5, JONES,
The First Two Have Lately Been Is
pecially Prominent Because of the
Anarchist Cause.-The Last Named Has
EecnInc IL Isic:, Man.
Especial correspondence

Anarchist Casc--Iac Last Named Has
Become IL Ric;, Man.
Special Correspondence
CHICAGO, Nov. H-ihcrc are some men in
the west want to tell You about Ono Of
them is person very we'll known in Illinois.
where the familiar pitronylnic of ''uncl." is
quite universally applied to him, and whose
fame has III a E,cA$i:!c SPREAD throughout tho
country-Govcrnor O%icS}v. "a him as court
OF last resort for the anarchists the eyes of
the world were for .o.ne days turned to
see what the sole ;irhitei' of seven lives would
do Ill one of the most rcrplcNMg cases ever
known in this country. Governor Oglcsby-
"Unclc Dick" everybody calls him out this;
way--has a kindly face, an eye which
tWinkles with good humor, a tongue which
delights to say pleasant and knows how
to utter lelicitoHs things. Ones first
impression of the governor is that lie could
not say harsh or cruel thing. even to his
enemy, to save his own neck: Vet
those who know him better know that
ON occasion he can be ..s stern and unbending
as he pleases with all due grace and natural
ness. He likes to tel stories and nothing
pleascs him better t,.;.n to sit up till mid
night in the office Of the Republican head
quarters in Chicago-the Grand Pacific hotel
exchanging views and swapping yarns
with Il number of his friends He can play
the violin, too, with good deal of dash and
spirit, and it was in this hotel some years
years ago that saw "Unce Dick one even
ing take from the hands of cclorcd mu-
sician black violin and upon it rlay, to the
liveliest possible time, an old country break
down tune. The politicians and travelling
rH-l,,N L
cotillons and there was plenty of fun.
1t was in Kentucky that Oglesby learned
to play "thc fiddle" as he has always called
it and as he calls it to this day. He there
learned several other things, some of them of
great deal more importance Among
them was to hate slavery He was Il slave
himself-to poverty and toll. To say that
the parents of Il great American were poor
and honest IS to tell fact that was easily
guessed: but Oglesby's parents Were very,
very poor, and moreover, when the cholera
swept through the Ohio valley in 1885, pc
culiarly fatal throughout that whole region,
the father and mother died within three
days, leaving half Il dozen orphans without
much in the way of property to start them
off in life. Richard was years old then. and
| when the executor auctiolcl OF the estate
of his father, consisting principally Of an
old colored man called "Unclc Tim" who
had been kept more us IL member Of the
family than slave, the boy shed
,, many and hot tears, and in his
brave juvenile way declared that ''Unclc
Tim should one day have his freedom He
kept his promise, too, some dozen Years later
and the old negro died FREQ. An uncle took
the boy Richard and did the best he could by
him, but that not much, and youn;,
Oglesby received but Il scaut common school
education.
Oglcsby springs from that stock which
gave so much good blood to several of the
western states, particularly to southern ILL
nois. There We're then i'll Kentucky two
classes-the rich planters and the poor
Withstand wide was the gulf between them
The poor men continued for Il while tic IN.
equal struggle against wealth backed up
with sla, cry, and then looked about them for
q new field. Illinois presented many allure
mcnts, and hither great numbers came
Thus Kentucky gave to Illinois some of her
best blood and most illustrious names Thus
came Lincoln, Yates and OgleSby In 1886
young Richards uncle settled at Decatur
and the boy was sent to learn the carpenters
trade At 20 lie began the study of law.
When the Mexican war broke out he went to
the front in the regiment commanded by
Col. Baker, who was afterward killed at
Balls Bluff. The gold fever If 40 sent him
to the valley OF the Sacramento, where he
toilcd for two years in search of riches, which
came not Returning to Illinois he began
the practice of law and entered politics. The
very beginning of the rebellion found him in
the saddle as Il colonel, and before receiving
| Il grievous wound at Cornth at the time
thought to bc mortal he had enjoyed the
pleasure of riding into Fort Donelson at the
head of the brigade which had borne the
honorable brunt of the battle Before re-
signing from the army he was made Il major
general
Elected governor i'll l>.:t, he has, since been
United States senator, and has; three time;
been reelected to- the place he now occupies,
and upon which the fatcs this year threw 50
great and peculiar responsibility. Governor
Ogleshy is a conscientious man, and vet uHc
who strives to be with the ma jority. Iii dis
position is composite of softness and as
perity, pliabilty and stubbornncss He is; !,
keen lawyer, Il wit, an orator in blunt and
effective fashion, and as great a lover of good
cigars as ever Gen. Grant was
Another man to whom the anarchist case
brought ii good deal of reputation i; now
about to ascend the bench in thiscity. Judge
Julius $. Grinncll, as states attorney in Chi
cago during the last three years, has had tho
luck OF unexamplel opportunities and the
genius to improve every one of them. Like
fully onc-haf of the successful men of Chi
cago, he is from New England stock, tracing
his lineage, however, to French and Welsh
sources, his remote ancestors living at Grim
| nellie, a village near Paris. But i'll physique
mental composition, character and traditions
he is u typical New Englander-a Nermontcr
though himself born i'll New Nrr,
state That was forty-tivc years ago
He studied law with Hon William
c. Brown, of Os,dcnsburg, taught school in
Ogdensburg academy, came out to Chicago
and began the practice of law IN 1870, was
elected city attorney as a Democrat, twice TO
elected, and in 1851 was elected states attor-
ney to succeed Charley Reed, who defended
Guiteau. The last three years have been
busy ones for him. He sent to the pc1liten-
tiary "Dutchy' O'kecfe, notorious local
ballot box suffer Then came the Joe
Mackin case. quickly followed by three
Italian murdercrs, whose fate was DEATH
These were no sooner dispatched than the
bomb exploded in Haymarkct, and Grinncll
| found himself the center of the anarchist
prosecution. How he performed that diff
| ficult task is well known. Surely these
four cases of surprising public interest were
| enough luck for one term as public prose-
cutor, but still another great opportunity